WOW! WHAT A BENEDICTION!

WOW!  WHAT A BENEDICTION!

Nancy Detweiler

http://segullah.org/daily-special/how-great-thou-art/

  Daniel O’Donnell, from Ireland, is one of my favorite singers.  He is such a kind man and has done so much to help Public Television.

 Tonight PBS aired a concert given by Daniel in Iowa to an auditorium filled with senior citizens.  I’m sure many seniors were watching at home too.  We laughed as he sang several Elvis Pressley songs and attempted to imitate some of Elvis’ movements. 

 We remembered …..….. I was around 16 when a young Elvis came to High Point, N.C. and gave a concert in one of the movie theaters.  Of course we girls screamed with delight!  He was only about 20 feet away in that rather small theater.   A treat for a lifetime …………..!

 Throughout Daniel’s concert, he sang the old, familiar songs and invited the audience to sing with him.  He had an auditorium of the elderly standing, clapping with him, singing with him, swinging their arms in the air.  Huge smiles everywhere … husbands and wives, who have likely spent decades together, holding hands and singing. 

 Tears flowed as I remembered all the years …. all the songs …. all the life experiences associated with the songs that I use to memorize.  Tears flowed because this dear man could so lovingly give a concert to the elderly and truly enjoy doing so.  It was a sacred experience … a feeling of Oneness with all—a feeling of benediction.

 As Daniel closed the concert with “How Great Thou Art,” I was 18 again … attending Orientation week at Mars Hill Junior College in my beloved mountains.  That night, almost a lifetime ago, a huge globe hung from the ceiling of the cafeteria … it was spinning slowly revealing all the continents … the room was dark … the spotlight lit only the globe—our planet.

 We closed our Orientation Week by singing “How Great Thou Art” as we watched our planet spin … reminding us of all people of the world.  We were dedicating our lives to the planet … to God … to all people.

 In 1956, I stood with a room full of 18 year olds.  We were eagerly stepping out into the world, embarking on our soul missions for this lifetime.

 Tonight, I sat in my home sharing with Daniel and an auditorium of senior citizens.  We have lived our lives … we have loved and been loved … made our contributions to the world … and now look forward to new, exciting adventures on higher dimensions of God’s glorious creation!

 In 2013, our planet is experiencing tremendous changes in every area of our lives.  We are ascending to a higher consciousness of our Oneness with All That Is … to knowing that LOVE is the most powerful force in the Universe … to comprehending that We Are One Family Of Mother/Father God.

  As youth and as the elderly, we sang “How Great Thou Art!” 

 Wow!  What a benediction!

Daniel O’Donnell sings “How Great Thou Art”

 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nK5Vk3I1aRc

 

 

FOCUS ON DIVINE GOVERNMENT

FOCUS ON DIVINE GOVERNMENT!

Patricia Cota-Robles

 October 2, 2012                    http://www.eraofpeace.org

 

[Bold font by Nancy]

            In the United States of America we are in the midst of a Presidential election

that is modeling to the world the antithesis of our newly birthed Renaissance of

Divine Love. The candidates at national, state, and local levels have spent

billions of dollars to have the media bombard us 24-hours a day with every

conceivable negative thoughtform about their opponent. Even though we know

better, it is very easy to get pulled into the polarizing fracas, thus, we

become part of the problem instead of part of the solution.

Even well intentioned Lightworkers are adding to the chaos by forwarding negative e-mails and focusing their thoughts, words, feelings, actions, and beliefs on

everything they think is wrong with the person their candidate is running

against. The Company of Heaven wants to remind us that due to the urgency of the

hour, nothing could be more counter productive to Earth’s Ascension process.

Elections have always been tumultuous, but this time it is different. This time

we are in the midst of the last stages of preparation Humanity must go through

before we experience the greatest influx of Light we have ever received in any

time frame or dimension since we were first breathed forth from the Heart of our

Father-Mother God. This influx of Light will take place in two stages. The first

will be December 12, 2012, 12:12:12, and the second will take place when the

Earth aligns with the Galactic Core of the Milky Way during the December

Solstice, December 21, 2012.

Whatever people focus on with their thoughts, words, feelings, actions, and

beliefs between now and those two events is being greatly amplified and

empowered. If we are focusing on what we DO NOT want in our life and everything

that is wrong with the world and the people in it, we are exponentially expanding

the negative things that are causing so much pain and suffering.

This in not new information. This is the essence of the life-transforming

information the Beings of Light in the Realms of Illumined Truth have been

revealing to us for decades. Our thoughts and feelings are creative faculties.

Where our attention is there we are! We all know this profound Truth. It is only

the manipulation of our fear-based human egos that have pulled us back into the

destructive game of duality and separation. We are ONE! There is no such thing as

“us and them.” Every negative thing we think, feel, say, or do is adding to our

pain and suffering and the negativity of every person, place, condition, or thing

on Earth. To keep acting out of these obsolete behavior patterns when we know

better is ludicrous, unconscionable, and defies common sense.

So let’s go back to the Presidential elections. Either President Obama or

Governor Romney is going to be elected to the office of President of the United

States of America during the most transformative time in the history of the

world. Currently they are both saying whatever they need to say to get elected.

They are both rehashing the policies of their respective political parties, which

in most instances have not been successful. And they are blaming the other party

for the havoc that has been wreaked in the lives of the American people.

The electorate in most cases is jumping on the bandwagon and empowering the negative thought forms by getting emotionally involved with the negativity

instead of focusing on the positive things we would like our candidate to bring

to the office of the Presidency.  When we focus on the past failures of anyone we

empower them. By doing this for the Presidential candidates, we are burying both

men in an overwhelming forcefield of negativity that will be extremely difficult

to transcend. No matter who gets elected, if the President of the United States

is so buried in negative thoughtforms that he cannot get his head above the mud

puddle, we will all pay the price.

The reality is that we should be doing the exact opposite of that. No matter who we are voting for, we should invoke the I AM Presence of President Obama and the I AM Presence of Governor Romney to take full dominion of their life, so that

whoever gets elected will be able to transcend the obsolete and failed policies

of both political parties. It is critical that our next President be able raise

up in consciousness effectively enough to tap into the patterns of perfection

within our New Planetary CAUSE of Divine Love and our newly birthed Renaissance

of Love. These patterns contain viable solutions for every single malady Humanity

has created through the misuse of our creative faculties of thought and feeling.

These patterns contain win-win solutions that will enhance life for every person

on Earth through Love and Reverence for ALL Life.

The Company of Heaven is reiterating these basic Truths at this time because we are going to have to be cognizant of what we are empowering with the focus of our

attention and especially what we are communicating during the next few months.

The bombardment through the media is going to get more intense. We are being

asked to hold the vision for Divine Government. This will be a government OF the

I AM Presence of Humanity, BY the I AM Presence of Humanity, FOR the I AM

Presence of Humanity. A government that is working for the highest good for every

particle of Life on Earth and reflecting the patterns of perfection for our

Renaissance of Divine Love.

The Company of Heaven has given us some invocations that will help us stay

focused during these vitally important months. If they resonate in your heart,

please join with Lightworkers around the world who are holding the sacred space

for the Immaculate Concept of Divine Government to manifest in the United States

of America and every country in the world.

Call  For  Divine  Government

I AM,  I AM,  I AM.

I AM my I AM Presence, and I AM One with the I AM Presence of all Humanity.

I invoke the great Beings of Light associated with Divine Government to this planet, and I invoke the Beloved Ascended Masters guarding the evolutions of

Earth.

Blessed Ones, blaze the Sacred Fires of God’s Will and Divine Illumination in, through, and around every person involved with the governments of Earth at international, national, state, and local levels.

Blaze the Sacred Fires of God’s Will and Divine Illumination in, through, and around the electorate and governmental officials of all nations.

Let every person feel and tangibly experience the Power, Wisdom, and Love of our Father-Mother God flowing through them as they elect their governments and vote on all issues before them.

SEAL this activity of Light within every person’s Heart Flame.

Expand this Light daily and hourly a thousand times a thousandfold with every breath I take.

VICTORY IS OURS IN LOVE GOVERNING THIS PLANET! (3X)

And so it is, Beloved I AM.

Divine Government Invocation

I AM breathing the Breath of the Holy Spirit into the deepest recesses of my Being. Every breath I take cleanses my physical, etheric, mental, and emotional

bodies. I hold the focus of my attention on each breath as it lifts me into the full embrace of my I AM Presence.

I surrender to the perfection of my true God Reality.

I AM One with the Divine Heart and Mind of God, I AM One with the Company of Heaven, I AM One with every man, woman, and child evolving on this sweet Earth.  From within the silence of my heart I affirm:

I AM a Beloved Child of God, and ALL that my Father-Mother God have is mine.

I invoke the All-pervading Light of the Universe, the Supreme Source of all Life—All That Is.

I kneel within my heart in recognition of the Light of the Cosmos, and I draw forth the Flames representing the threefold activity of Life, as exemplified by

the Holy Trinity.

I invoke the Blue Flame, which represents the Divine Power of my Father God.

I invoke the Pink Flame, which represents the Divine Love of my Mother God.

I invoke the Yellow-gold Flame, which represents the Divine Wisdom

of the Sons and Daughters of God—the I AM Presence.

Beloved Father-Mother God, come now and assert your rightful authority within me and within ALL Humanity.

Show us how to reverently express the perfectly balanced activity of God’s Love, Wisdom, and Power.

O, Supreme Light, I acknowledge you in all Life.

I give gratitude to the glorious Cosmic and Ascended Beings, as I invoke them and the great Angelic Host to amplify the energy which I AM releasing to assist with cocreating Divine Government for the United States of America and every country on Earth.

This is destined to be a Government OF the I AM Presence of Humanity, BY the I AM Presence of Humanity, FOR the I AM Presence of Humanity.

Beloved Presence of God—the Source of All that Is—I love and adore you. I acknowledge you as the owner and giver of my life, my intelligence, my substance, my all.

Seal me in the Love, Wisdom, and Power of Victorious Accomplishment. Blaze your Light before me and prepare the way that I may always walk the path of Light.

Guard and protect me, guide and direct me, and give me the Illumination of the Truth that will set me FREE.

Help me to BE your Divine Love in action at all times, and sustain your Love through me to bless all Life.

I invoke the I AM Presence of every soul that is in anyway associated with the governments of the Earth. Beloved Ones, direct, sustain, and expand the portion of the Divine Plan which is that soul’s destiny.

I Invoke the entire Company of Heaven to direct their full-gathered momentum of Loving and Illumined Obedience to God’s Will into the feelings, minds, and worlds of all governmental and business leaders throughout the planet.

Through the Power and Presence of God, I AM, I decree that Divine Government shall manifest NOW, and that ALL Humanity shall follow the Will of God with Reverence for ALL Life and the highest good for all concerned.

And so it is, Beloved I AM, Beloved I AM, Beloved I AM that I AM.

Patricia Diane Cota-Robles

New Age Study of Humanity’s Purpose

a 501 (c) 3 nonprofit educational organization

http://www.eraofpeace.org

FAX: 520-751-2981

Phone: 520-885-7909

New Age Study of Humanity’s Purpose

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This article is copyrighted, but you have my permission to share it through any medium as long as it is not altered and the proper credit line is included.

©2012 Patricia Diane Cota-Robles

BEING BUSY, BEING STILL

MY EXPERIENCE AS A WALK-IN

MY EXPERIENCE AS A WALK-IN

Dale Ridenour

As a child growing up and looking to the future, I wondered what it might hold or what it might be like, like most kids did, I think.

Among the many, many ideas I had about my path ahead, the one idea or thought, for want of a better term, that came up so often beginning around the age of 8 or so, was that something kept telling me that when I reached the time, around the age of 18 or 19, something would happen. I kept getting this feeling.  It was as though when I looked at myself in the future, someone else was going to step-in and take the helm, so to speak. Since I had, at that time, really no explanation for this thought or feeling, I just, although not dismissing it, really didn’t give it that much consideration.

Fast-forward to the time of Nov 28th, 1989, the date I became a walk-in. I went to sleep like normal; however, that’s where things changed for me. When I awoke the next morning, I got up and started going through my day.  However, I had a really weird, unexplainable feeling. It was like I was a totally different person. I was still me, but someone different. When I started thinking about the past, I could remember all of it, but it was like the memories I had were someone else’s and not mine. As I went through my day, actually for the next week or so, I still knew everyone that was in my life at that time, but it was like I was meeting them for the first time.

With all of these experiences I was having, I could not discuss them with anyone around me, because it really was outside of their understanding, I think. Really, it was outside of my own understanding as well. Luckily, there was a man, whom I had just met a few months earlier. I was able to share my experience with him and the revelations he was able to show me were outstanding.

He told me that I had become a “walk-in.” I was hearing this term for the first time. He told me that it happened for him just a month or so before it happened to me. He also said, that in order for this to happen, there is an agreement made between two souls prior to incarnating. This explains the feelings I had as a kid.

He said the walk-in process is initiated with an event in the person’s life, like a NDE (Near Death Experience), during which the new spirit will step in and take over. For him, he said, his heart stopped beating and then his new spirit stepped in and took over.

As for me, I really can not recall how the process started. He said we are in a time, the end of an age, where many folks will have this experience (some not even aware of it). This happens to help things in this world move to their next step or transition to the Aquarian New Age.

Jesus was a walk-in also, just prior to an approaching New Age (the Piscean New Age) and prior to beginning his work. It is in the Good Book. If I remember correctly, it was depicted as the Dove that descended upon Him. (I am not him, nor do I claim to be.)

One of the first things I noticed was my thoughts and habits began to change. My new spirit, if you will, was much more relaxed compared to the old one. I still worked just as hard, but it was all different. At first, I really truthfully, didn’t like all these changes. I liked the old “Me.”  But I then settled into the changes.

As I started going through my life and time went on, I started looking for signs, just to see if this is all true and I started to find them. One of the things he (this friend of mine) said was that when a person becomes a walk-in, his birthday changes. So I began looking for evidence in this area and I found it. I began learning about horoscopes and how horoscopes do work with birthdays and it was there I found my first bit of evidence.

My original birth month is August (Virgo); my walk-in birth month is November (Sagitarius). When I looked at the description of the traits and characteristics for Virgo, before the walk-in date, the description was correct, but after the date, it became less accurate.

When I looked at the description for Sagitarius, the reverse turned out to be the case. The description for Sagitarius was accurate after the walk-in date and not before. Actually, in a way, I became the sum total of both descriptions (Virgo and Sagitarius). I still celebrate the original birthday.

I have attempted to find more documentation or books that can confirm or add to my experiences, but have not found any. It is either rare or just undocumented, I think.

My walk-in spirit is much more advanced spiritually than the original, several levels I think. But I don’t remember how many. I would love to give more information than this; however, this is all that I have for now.

Hopefully ‘more info’ might come from someone who has had a similar experience. Together, we can learn more about this term and this path some take called “walk-in.”

TO FOLLOWERS OF CHRISTIANITY & CATHOLICISM

Wes Annac – To Followers of Christianity and Catholicism

2012 April 25

Posted by Dave Schmidt at www.2012scenario.com

Editor’s Note:  Some may find the following message challenging while for others it may resonate from within.  As a former seminary graduate and minister of a Pentecostal church, I fall into the later group, It speaks to me deeply as this was similar to my path. 

Over 50% of the population in North America still attends church on a regular basis, many of those are now becoming seekers.  They are looking for a bridge to connect them from their church dogma to a God who is only filled with love and grace for all.   This message from Wes Annac may be that bridge you can share with your friends who are seeking!     Dave

Note from Nancy:  I am including the above Editor’s Note from Dave because we, who trained as ministers and had to leave the church in order to seek Truth on our own, yearn to see those still caught in the web of dogma break those chains.  The spiritual journey can be so exciting when traveled with freedom to seek Truth wherever it may be found.

Wes Annac – To Followers of Christianity and Catholicism

April 24, 2012

Channeled by Wes Annac

http://tinyurl.com/7bu2m2g

To all those who follow Christianity and Catholicism:

Stay strong in your Light and in the Light of Jesus Christ, dear friends. He is very real and He Loves you unconditionally. There are going to be many revelations in the immediate period ahead that are going to break the controls and constraints that have been placed over the once Lighted views that make up your belief systems.

Nobody will be telling you that you are wrong or that dear Jesus and God do not exist, because they do and they are Guiding any soul on Earth who wishes to connect with them.

The dogmas and limits that have taught you to look for power only in Jesus and God and not in yourself, are to be transformed as it is explained that each and every one of us are God. Each and every one of us Create our reality just as dear God Created Eden, and you possess the power within yourselves to connect with God and with Jesus in ways that are more real than you can imagine.

With all due respect for you beautiful souls involved in Christianity and Catholicism, you have been taught to believe that the only way to find God is through redemption, prayer and a strict following of an ordained set of rules.

This is simply not so. God is with you; His eternal glory and splendor is all around you, and our beautiful Creator wishes dearly for all of us to reignite contact with Him in very real ways.

The methods you have been given to gain a good grace with God have served to hold you back in communicating with and finding God.

God and Jesus only wish you to Live in Love and to treat others as you would like to be treated. This is the Golden Rule dear friends, and was one of little truths given in any given version of the Bible.

You do not need to follow the words and demands of a minister or a priest to find God and to stay on God’s ‘good side’, as God does not have a ‘bad side’. He Loves all of us unconditionally and only wishes for us to discover and find this Love.

We do not need to be baptized or beg for redemption of our perceived ‘sins’ to do this. All we need to do is make the effort to connect with God and with Jesus alike, to thank them for all that they have given us on this beautiful world, and to acknowledge that God is all around and that it takes little more than an acknowledgement of God’s awesome and Divine presence which is again all around us, to strengthen your relationship with Him in all of His eternal splendor.

It must be expressed as well, that God will not be sending anybody to hell upon such souls leaving this Life, because of their perceived ‘sins’. The reality we are experiencing currently is about as close to hell as can be experienced, as physicality pales in comparison to the beautiful Heavens that await us.

Yes dear friends, heaven is real and so is hell. The difference is that hell is not a place where a vengeful God sends the sinners; simply look at how judgmental such a statement and belief sounds.

Again, compared to the heavenly realms in which we are all evolving, physically and spiritually to, this reality we are experiencing now can be seen as hell.

The pearly gates of heaven, the gold-lined roads, these are all real and the concept of heaven as well; an ascended city that sits on the clouds, is real. There are hundreds, thousands, millions, billions of these heavenly cities lining the clouds of Earth, and upon leaving this incarnation each and every one of us has the choice to visit these beautiful ascended cities, rather than having only a choice between a ‘heaven’ and a ‘hell’.

Many beliefs and structures of what seem to be reality by many dear Christian and Catholic people, will need to be expanded exponentially and the limits that have been forced upon you dear beautiful souls will also have to be expanded. Dear Master Jesus is one of an infinite amount of heavenly Ascended Masters who have walked the Earth and shared their Lighted teachings with Mankind.

Jesus has walked this Earth as have Master Muhammad, Master Buddha, Master Moses, Master Gandhi, Master Martin Luther King Jr., and so many other dear heavenly souls who wished to share the teachings of our Heavenly Father in very direct ways.

The teachings of Jesus and of many other religious figures and prophets (not every Master listed above is a religious prophet) have been substantially distorted to keep you dear beautiful souls in a state of perceived limitation.

Those who would and have attempted to control you, know that you dear souls are looking for your own spirituality and concept of the heavenly realms and of a Creator and that many of you who follow organized religion of the forms spoken of in this message, are indeed wonderful people who simply wish to gain a perception and relationship with our Heavenly and Divine Father as well as with dear Jesus.

Those who have distorted the teachings of so many Masters, know that you dear souls are open to our Heavenly Creator which is why they have taken to distorting the Lighted teachings of dear Jesus among so many others, to keep you in a state of illusion and limitation in regards to finding God and Jesus in real, actual ways.

So far, the teachings that have been ‘given’ by Christianity and Catholicism have served to hold you back from a tangible relationship with our beautiful Creator as well as His prophets.

Did you know that Master Jesus is routinely communicating with humanity? Along with many other dear Ascended Masters, Jesus has been speaking with humanity to help prepare us for the glorious evolutionary event that is to grace this world and that for the most part, is currently in progress.

The mere incarnation of Jesus and so many other Masters on Earth was to share and help spread the truths of the Light, of the heavenly and angelic realms in which we are returning to with the beautiful ascension of this world.

The prophecies given in your books have themselves been distorted. The original prophecies given in relation to these end times, stated that this world as we know it – the separation, the hate, the limitation – is to indeed end, and is to be replaced with a beautiful Utopian Heaven, right here on Earth. Imagine, dear friends, getting to experience Eden in all of it’s beauty and wonder.

Please dear friends, in regards to this message, do not shoot the messenger. There are plenty of people who would deliver this same message that I am giving to you, in much more disrespectful and hateful ways. In the immediate period ahead when many revelations and truths begin pouring into our mainstream world, much will be explained to you about the nature to which you have been controlled and the nature to which the teachings of our dear Creator as well as of Jesus and so many other Ascended Masters were distorted to keep you thinking that a direct relationship with our Creator is difficult to attain. It certainly is not.

We will all have little time to keep up in regards to following and absorbing so many revelations, and I give you this introductory message on behalf of the Angelic forces who wish each and every one of you to discover the true nature of our reality.

Such Angels will be speaking directly with all of us on this world so very soon, and they want dearly to connect with and to Love each and every dear soul amassed in each and every religion, as well as each and every soul on this world not amassed in religion.

A peaceful reuniting with all of those souls amassed in other religions that sport different prophets will be necessary, as each and every religious prophet that has incarnated on this world has come from the same Heaven, the same Love, to share the same truths.

One can find a common element in the teachings of every religion, and I don’t think I need to tell you what that common element is.

In conclusion, I hope that this message has seeped in for some. Nobody is asking you to give up your long held and cherished beliefs, it is simply that Master Jesus along with so many other Angelic souls in the higher realms, wish you all to find the contact with them that you have desired and attempted to bring forth through prayer, following rigid dogmas and through any other type of method to find this relationship.

With respect for each and every one of you, I ask that dear Jesus be with you all. Say hello, for He is with you now.

Wes Annac – One of many messengers.

WesAnnac.com

www.AquariusChannelings.com

NOTE FROM NANCY:  Jesus incarnated to show us the way to ascension or the Christed Consciousness, not to be worshipped.  You may read my series of lessons entitled “If Jesus Is A Wayshower, What Did He Show Us?” at:  http://www.pathwaytoascension.com/bible.html.

COSMIC VISION NEWS

 

We now have a LIGHTWORKER news show that brings the REAL NEWS! A prelude to what news will be in the very near future–a combination of galactic and Earth human news reporting. Our traditional news reporters are having a rough time with this show because they evidently are unaware that what is really happening on this planet is for the moment hidden and the major media outlets are tightly controlled by the dark cabal. Journalists that are reporting truth are risking their lives to do so and will not be found on mainstream media news. For the moment we cannot expect to go to mainstream websites and verify what the journalists who are risking their lives are saying. If we had an open and honest society, no one would have to risk their lives to spread truth. Instead, we have to depend upon persons with top level security clearance who become whistleblowers and journalists that care more about spreading the truth than they do for their physical lives. Congratulations to Geoffrey West for his new show!

WHY MASS ARRESTS ARE NECESSARY TO FREE AMERICANS & EVENTUALLY THE WORLD

WHY MASS ARRESTS ARE NECESSARY TO FREE AMERICANS

& EVENTUALLY THE WORLD

The imminent mass arrests will be of those persons who have perpetrated upon the American people all the ills disclosed in the article listed below.  We need to be supportive and do all we can to assist in preventing any violence as Americans react in fear and anger upon learning how thoroughly they have been enslaved by the private owners of the Federal Reserve and their henchmen.

A sufficient number of people in a majority of the states have taken the necessary legal steps to free America from Corporate Rule and sent the paperwork to the International Court of Law in Hague, Netherlands.  They have received the necessary Notification Process from the International Court to permit We the People to request the United States Military to ask the Federal Marshalls, with the backing of the local police, to arrest those who usurped our original Constitution and created the United States of America, Inc. and enslaved the people.  The military will assist by standing guard in case there is more trouble than the Federal Marshalls and police can handle.

The imminent mass arrests in America will take place at the request of We the People.

You may learn about the actions taken by We the People by reading the transcript of David Wilcock’s interview of a man, Drake, whom the Pentagon asked to proceed with the actions.  Before you react in disbelief, read the transcript.

http://www.divinecosmos.com/start-here/davids-blog/1043-massarrests

Once you read the transcript and understand what is about to happen, read the article “Who Is Running America?” to comprehend why this action is essential if Americans are to be free.  http://www.barefootsworld.net/usfraud.html

These two documents will give Americans a good idea as to what is about to happen and why.  This will be the most magnificent event in the history of our nation and world because THE PEOPLE HAVE SET THEMSELVES FREE & DONE SO PEACEFULLY!

IS IT YOUR TRUTH, MY TRUTH, OR THE TRUTH?

IS IT YOUR TRUTH, MY TRUTH,

OR

THE TRUTH?

Nancy B. Detweiler, M.Ed., M.Div.

Allow the circle to symbolize Earth humans’ actual brain power.  On average, we use only 10% (the red) of our brain power.

Allow the circle to symbolize Earth humans’ potential conscious mind.  On average, we are conscious of only 6% (the green) of what our limited brain power usage can make available to us.

Needless to say, Earth humans function at a very low level when we consider our true capacity as human beings made in the image of our Creator God.  Why?

The Genesis story explains in symbolic terms.  We chose to eat the forbidden fruit from the tree of knowledge of good and evil.  God warned us that if we ate of this fruit, we would surely die.  The above graph illustrates the way in which we died—we began to function on a much lower level than we had previously known.  We left the paradise of the Garden of Eden in order to experience life on the 3^rd dimensional plane of duality—good and evil.

We have journeyed for thousands of years on this plane.  The Universal Law—We reap whatsoever we sow—continued to be in effect.  Therefore, as we sowed negative karma, we created the necessity of having to return to the plane of duality in order to reap the results of our negative behavior.  For eons, we have lived on the wheel of karma—returning again and again until we learned to live lifetimes in which we sowed enough good karma to balance the negative sown in previous incarnations.[i]

Now, in 2012, we come to the end of the cycle of Earth’s plane of duality.  This magnificent being, Gaia or Mother Earth, will no longer house the plane of duality.[ii]  She has chosen to ascend and once more become a planet on which the Garden of Eden characterizes her existence.  We Earth humans have the opportunity to ascend with her to the higher dimensions from which we came.  However, the Universal Law of freewill is still in effect.

No one is required to ascend until they wish to do so.   Those who do not want to ascend in 2012 will be lovingly taken to another planet within the Cosmos where they can continue to grow and learn on a plane of duality.  There is no divine judgment or punishment for choosing not to ascend in 2012.  All Earth humans will eventually ascend at the point in time each chooses.  The only requirement is that 51% of the negative karma accumulated has been balanced.  At that point the individual has crossed the line into being more Light than darkness and the Law of Grace dissolves the remaining negative karma.[iii]

During these remaining 9 months of 2012, Earth humans will be shocked to learn how much we do not know.  For that reason, each of us will best manage our own adjustment period by beginning immediately to explore outside our traditional way of thinking.  To cling to plane of duality beliefs or doctrines is to stand in your own way and make the rest of this year more difficult for yourself.

Heretofore, we have attempted to live cooperatively on this planet by recognizing that every individual has decided what truth is for him/herself.  We frequently use the phrases my truth or your truth.  We have decided what truth is for ourselves with the 10% of our brain power that we use and the 6% of our conscious awareness of the life around us.  For the most part, we are dead to the far greater life that exists in our cosmos.  For this reason, we know little, if any, of The Truth.

In this same manner, all sacred texts and all religions were written or formulated using 10% of our human brain power and 6% of potential human conscious awareness.[iv]  We have lived and created our present planetary societies, religions, governments, educational systems, and scientific endeavors with this same very low level of functioning.   In comparison to our galactic family’s level of functioning, we are barbaric.

The present turmoil on planet Earth is evidence that Earth humans are coming back to life, resurrecting from the dead.   Our conscious awareness is expanding.  We are realizing that truths formulated in our dead state come no where near unveiling The Truth of the cosmos in which we live.  We have created a god in our own image with the propensity to take revenge, to punish, to require blood sacrifices, to be unpredictable in meting out rewards and punishment, and to go to war and kill entire populations—including women and children.  Our present world mirrors the concept of god we have codified within our sacred texts and religions.  We have yet to awaken to The Truth that Creator God is Spirit—the Spirit of Unconditional Love.

A God of Unconditional Love can BE nothing else … can THINK nothing else …  can DO nothing else … can SEE nothing else.  Creator God, omnipresent  throughout the Cosmos, is Absolute Unconditional Love.  There are no exceptions.

How do we know what we do not know?  How do we learn The Truth?

The kingdom of God is within us.

Meditate on the above circle … seek to understand how little of our true selves we use.  Allow the circle to symbolize the Cosmos in which “we live and more and have our being” within the loving energy of omnipresent Creator God or the Source of All That Is.

Allow the circle to symbolize who we truly are as child gods of our Heavenly Father/Mother God.  We are far greater beings than we suspect.  We possess within ourselves all we need to color the entire circle:  red to symbolize activation of the remaining 90% of our brain power … green to symbolize expansion of our conscious awareness to the point of acquiring full consciousness.  At that point we will have ascended to higher dimensions of existence where we live consciously within the energy of Unconditional Love.  Where we, too, offer unconditional love to all others.

The Truth can only be known as we open ourselves to expand into all that we truly are!  Then the plane of duality’s your truth and my truth become meaningless.  There is only The One Truth that far exceeds any semblance to truth we have formulated on the plane of duality.

The One Truth – We are One With All That Is!

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[i]   You may learn more about reincarnation/karma at:                 http://pathwaytoascension.wordpress.com/2011/01/25/how-reincarnation-plays-out-in-life/

[ii]   You may learn more about Gaia at:  http://pathwaytoascension.wordpress.com/2011/06/24/535/

[iii]   You may learn more about the Law of Grace at:       http://pathwaytoascension.wordpress.com/2011/05/31/purification-in-preparation-for-ascension/

http://pathwaytoascension.wordpress.com/2010/12/05/the-purple-transmuting-flame-a-means-of-grace-for-the-21st-century/

[iv]   You may learn more about the Bible written on the plane of duality at:                  http://pathwaytoascension.wordpress.com/2012/02/24/the-bible-the-story-of-our-souls-journey-through-the-plane-of-duality-draws-to-a-close/

AN ANALYSIS OF THE NICENE CREED IN COMPARISON WITH JESUS’ TEACHINGS

AN ANALYSIS OF THE NICENE CREED
IN COMPARISON WITH JESUS’ TEACHINGS

Nancy B. Detweiler, M.Ed., M.Div.

“Is reincarnation cheap grace?”

“Does reincarnation take away from the role of Jesus in God’s plan of salvation?”

In order to answer these questions, we must consider traditional Christianity’s doctrines relating to Jesus, grace, and the human condition.

In 325 C.E., the ecumenical council of Church Fathers, meeting in Nicaea, adopt the Nicene Creed⁸⁹ as the means by which the worldwide church maintains one and the same doctrine. With the advent of the Protestant Reformation, numerous creeds are developed by the various “break-away” Christian groups. However, the powerful influence of the Nicene Creed persists, even within those denominations that profess to have no creed. The beliefs set forth in the Nicene Creed permeate our Christian psyche. Christians have read the Bible through the lens of the Nicene Creed for seventeen hundred years. Today, it is the creed often used during Services of Communion.⁹⁰ (This endnote includes the Nicene Creed in its entirety.)

“Who is Jesus according to the Nicene Creed?”

“We believe in one Lord, Jesus Christ, the only Son of God, eternally begotten of the Father, God from God, Light from Light, true God from true God, begotten, not made, of one Being with the Father. Through him all things were made. For us and for our salvation he came down from heaven … for our sake he was crucified … he ascended into heaven and is seated at the right hand of the Father … with the Father and the Son he [the Holy Spirit] is worshiped and glorified.”

On the basis of this description of Jesus rests our misconceptions of his true identity, his role in the salvation of humanity, and humanity’s condition. Fierce controversies over Jesus’ divinity versus his humanity, or combination thereof, are raged by Christians for hundreds of years. Ruthless debates over humanity’s original sin, humanity’s deprived state, and God’s need for a blood sacrifice fill the pages of numerous theological treatises. With the concept of reincarnation deemed heresy, the horrendous doctrine of double predestination is devised as a means to explain the presence of unmitigated evil in the world.⁹¹ (Endnote contains added information.) Theologians are forced to talk around their elbows and back in an effort not to punch holes in the above creed.

Ponder the above words from the Nicene Creed. What do they tell you about Jesus? Jesus is said to be God. Jesus is to be worshipped as the sacrificial lamb, thus the vicarious atonement for our sins. By implication, God is a God who cannot bring himself to forgive humanity without a blood sacrifice of his beloved Son. Seldom expressed verbally, the grasping fingers of subliminal fear paralyze Christians into obeying when the church hierarchy commands, “Do not question God’s actions. You will lose your faith if you do.”

The assumed truth in the Nicene Creed is that humanity is down below God and Jesus, separate from them. By default, humanity is of a different nature—a nature that so angers God a blood sacrifice is required. God’s unconditional love and unlimited grace, as displayed in the opportunity to reincarnate, has no place in the creedal theology. Though Christians have tried to have faith in a God of love, fear prevails. How often have I heard, “I know God loves me because he gave his only Son to die for me.” In the search for security in a world ruled by an angry God, Christians regularly ignore their nagging intuitive hunches: “Requiring the death of one son, so that others might live, cannot be right.”

Fear is rarely admitted. I hear it when a bereaved person comforts himself with the words, “I’m sure she went to heaven. She was so good.” Though not a conscious part of his daily life, the belief in hell rises to the surface when the individual is confronted with death. The human psyche is deeply scarred with the church’s teaching of a physical place called hell, created by a God who intends to punish some individuals for eternity. As long as the church ignores the fact of reincarnation, hell remains the only method for God’s justice to work itself out.

Yet hell, as a place for some to spend eternity, is not biblical. Rocco Errico offers a word study. The English term hell comes from the Anglo-Saxon hel, meaning a hidden place. Hel comes from the verb form helan meaning to hide. Thus the English root word for hell, helan, has nothing to do with hell-fire. Biblical translators used the word hell to translate two different Semitic words: gehenna or gehenna dnoora in Aramaic (the language of Jesus) and sheol in Hebrew.

Sheol comes from the Hebrew root word shalal meaning to be still, quiet. The ancient Hebrews believe sheol to be a place beneath the earth’s surface where those who die, both good and bad, are inactive and quiet. They await judgment or resurrection day. It is a temporary resting place in the underworld.

The Aramaic gehenna dnoora refers to the “Valley of Hinnom.” During the first century C.E., Gehenna Dnoora is the garbage dump for Jerusalem. Located outside the city, people bring garbage to Gehenna Dnoora and burn it. The Judean king, Ahaz (735-715 B.C.E.), uses this valley to offer sacrifices to idols. Here, in the Valley of Hinnom, King Ahaz sends his son to the flames as a human sacrifice to the gods. As a result of these sacrifices, the valley Gei Hinnom becomes a Semitic term for hell.⁹² The Old Testament sheol and the New Testament gehenna dnoora in no way refer to a place established by God for eternal punishment.

Revelation 21:8 is another verse that seems, on the surface, to verify the Christian concept of hell: “But as for the cowardly, the faithless, the polluted, the murderers, the fornicators, the sorcerers, the idolaters, and all liars, their place will be in the lake that burns with fire and sulfur, which is the second death.” Throughout Revelation, sulfur appears in relationship to the eternal fires.⁹³ On the mundane level, sulfur is a natural element found in protein. Protein is essential to the well-being of our physical bodies. Hidden wisdom uses sulfur as an alchemical symbol.⁹⁴ Alchemy, as defined by Webster, is the “power or process of transforming something common into something special.” Thus sulfur in combination with the eternal fire is the means by which souls are transformed “from something common into something special.” The second death is therefore death to the lower self (or something common) so that the something special can be resurrected. Revelation is speaking of the astral plane where all negativity is eventually transmuted and resurrected into something special.

Hell, as a place of eternal punishment, is not biblical. God truly is love.

Sadly the misconceptions of the church render Christians paralyzed with fear. Although many ministers and laypersons say they no longer believe in hell, no concentrated effort is made to correct this destructive doctrine. It is simply ignored. To ignore it does not alleviate fear. Instead, the fear is repressed, giving it power far beyond our recognition.

Why, when the minister who attempts to present new insights is silenced, does she acquiesce? Why is the layperson hesitant to ask the questions that really concern him. For the minister, loss of the particular pulpit may lead to a more open congregation. For the parishioner, loss of status within the church community is far less restricting than repressing questions springing from the soul. The healing of subliminal fear of an unpredictable God awaits the church’s awakening to and proclamation of Truth.

As I continue to share the story of my search for Truth, I pray you will have the courage to explore with me and recognize for yourself, God is Absolute Love.

“What does Jesus teach?”

Throughout the gospels of Matthew, Mark and Luke, Jesus refers to himself as the Son of Man, thus emphasizing his prototype human role. This prototype human concept of himself is reinforced throughout his teachings.

Jesus repeatedly shifts the attention from himself to “his Father in heaven.” In Matthew 8, an individual suffering from leprosy approaches Jesus, asking to be healed. Jesus touches the man’s scaly skin, saying, “Be made clean.” As the man is healed, Jesus commands him to go to the temple and offer a gift of thanksgiving to God. Jesus deflects the credit for the healing from himself to God.

Mark 10:17-22 relates the story of a rich man running up to Jesus. “Good Teacher, what must I do to inherit eternal life?” Jesus corrects him, “Why do you call me good? No one is good but God alone.” Then Jesus answers the man’s question according to his individual soul’s needs. Jesus senses that this wealthy man is attached to his material possessions. His soul needs to learn at least three lessons this incarnation: 1) detachment from riches as his source of supply; 2) sharing his possessions with others; and 3) looking to God alone as his source of abundant supply. Grieving, the man turns away—he is not ready to learn.

That Jesus views himself as the prototype human is obvious in Luke 6:40. “A disciple is not above the teacher, but everyone who is fully qualified will be like the teacher.” Jesus expects his disciples to develop the same level of spiritual maturity he exhibits. He is frustrated with their failure to do so.

While the disciples are rowing across the Sea of Galilee, a storm splashes waves into the boat. Fearful for their lives, the disciples call to Jesus to wake up and save them. After calming the sea, Jesus questions his disciples, “Why are you afraid? Have you still no faith?”⁹⁵ Jesus expects them to have the faith needed to calm the sea. Instead, they simply look at him in awe.

The disciples seem unable to comprehend Jesus’ expectations of them. On another occasion, Jesus is teaching a crowd of five thousand men in a deserted place. As dusk approaches, his disciples grow uneasy. They want Jesus to dismiss the crowd so they can go into the villages, find a place to spend the night, and purchase some food. Jesus expects the disciples to solve the problem: “You give them something to eat.”⁹⁶ Once more the disciples do not know what to do.

Jesus places himself on par with the disciples and the rest of humanity. He teaches us to address God as “our Father” when we pray.⁹⁷ In his teachings, he refers to God as “your Father in heaven.”⁹⁸ Jesus indicates the familial relationship we share with him: “For whoever does the will of my Father in heaven is my brother and sister and mother.” Our Father, your Father, my Father—we and Jesus have the same relationship to God. Because Jesus, as prototype human, is so far beyond our present demonstrated abilities, we believe ourselves to be less than he in the eyes of God. In reality, Jesus, as prototype human, reveals the goal of reincarnation.

John’s gospel presents the most vivid display of Jesus’ knowledge that he is prototype man. The above portion of the Nicene Creed is based on the Church Fathers’ interpretation of John 1:1-18. Jesus is equated with the Word. The creed affirms Jesus as true God from true God. As a result, reading the gospel of John through the lens of the Nicene Creed can be a confusing experience.

In contrast to the Nicene Creed, Christian Gnosticism equates the Word with the spirit of God indwelling Jesus and every other human being. As I state in Chapter Three at: http://www.pathwaytoascension.com/bible_reincarnation.html,  the Gnostics are reincarnationists. Scholars, not bound by orthodoxy, believe Gnostics to be the descendants of the original Christians and the inheritors of the hidden wisdom Jesus gives only to his disciples.⁹⁹ The Greek meaning of christos is the Christ, the anointed one, the Messiah. Gnostics teach that the Christ is the divine spirit in every being.¹⁰⁰ Jesus is called the Christ because he has evolved spiritually to the point of being filled with the Spirit. In his prayer for all his followers, Jesus prayed, “As you, Father, are in me and I am in you, may they also be in us.”¹⁰¹ Gnostics equate the Word with the Christ. Making this distinction between Jesus and the Christ Spirit indwelling all beings opens the door to the hidden wisdom teachings of Jesus, including reincarnation.

The goal of reincarnation is to become one with God—to become so filled with the Christ Spirit that we, like Jesus, are manifesting as the Christ. Reading the Bible with the lens of gnosticism is a thrilling adventure. The Bible, especially John’s gospel, comes alive with personal meaning. Through the lens of gnosticism, the Bible is your story and my story, the narrative of our souls’ journey back to God. Read through the lens of the Nicene Creed, the Bible is the story of a faraway God periodically intervening within the historical setting of a helpless humanity.

John’s gospel is filled with teachings of Jesus that are ignored by subscribers to the Nicene Creed. They fall on deaf ears because a Christianity based on the Creed presents Jesus as the God Man to be worshipped. To traditional Christians, relating to Jesus as an equal is a foreign concept.

Jesus makes the distinction between himself as the man and the indwelling Spirit of the Father: “Very truly, I tell you, the Son can do nothing on his own, but only what he sees the Father doing; for whatever the Father does, the Son does likewise.”¹⁰²

“I can do nothing on my own. As I hear, I judge: and my judgment is just, because I seek to do not my own will but the will of him who sent me.”¹⁰³

“My teaching is not mine but his who send me.”¹⁰⁴

“I do nothing on my own, but I speak these things as the Father instructed me … I declare what I have seen in the Father’s presence; as for you, you should do what you have heard from the Father.”¹⁰⁵

“Whoever believes in me believes not in me but in him who sent me … I have not spoken on my own, but the Father who sent me has himself given me a commandment about what to say and what to speak … What I speak, therefore, I speak just as the Father has told me.”¹⁰⁶

“The words that I say to you I do not speak on my own; but the Father who dwells in me does his works.”¹⁰⁷

The climax of Jesus’ teaching regarding humanity’s status within the divine cosmic plan in found in John 14:12: “The one who believes in me will also do the works that I do and, in fact, will go greater works than these, because I am going to the Father.”

Jesus is the prototype man, the example we are to follow, not to worship. Believing Jesus to be a divinity we are to worship renders his teachings unfathomable.

Jesus’ metaphor of the vine beautifully illustrates the sameness of the Word or Christ spirit within Jesus and humanity. In John 15, Jesus teaches, “I am the true vine, and my Father is the vinegrower … I am the vine, you are the branches.” Remember, Jesus speaks the words of his Father or the Christ Spirit within him. When Jesus states, “I am the true vine,” he is channeling the words of the Christ Spirit. In other words, the Christ Spirit (which dwells within each of us) informs us through Jesus, “I [the Christ Spirit] am the true vine.” Jesus is the spokesperson for the Christ Spirit.

In Palestine, grape vineyards are a common sight. Anyone hearing Jesus’ words will immediately know that the grapes are produced on the branches. His metaphor unveils the true relationship of humanity with the Christ Spirit and God. God, as the vinegrower, is the Creator God of John 1:1. The life force through which the vine comes into being is the Word, or Christ Spirit (the only begotten Son). This life force not only fills the vine, but also its branches—humanity. It is the life that is the light of all people. We, the branches, are to bear the fruit, to do all the works that Jesus did and more. As a member of the human race, Jesus is one of the branches.

Let us now read that most beloved verse of the New Testament, John 3:16: “For God so loved the world [or humanity] that he gave his only Son [the Christ Spirit within each of us], so that everyone who believes in him [the indwelling Christ Spirit] may not perish but may have eternal life.”

The true source of eternal life is the Christ Spirit within humanity and all of creation. Continuing in John 3, we read,

“Indeed, God did not send the Son [the Christ Spirit] into the world to condemn the world, but in order that the world might be saved through him [the Christ Spirit]. Those who believe in him [the Christ Spirit] are not condemned; but those who do not believe are condemned already, because they have not believed in the name of the only Son of God [the Christ Spirit dwelling within each of us]. And this is the judgment, that the light [the Christ Spirit as the life force of all creation] has come into the world, and people loved darkness rather than light because their deeds were evil. For all who do evil hate the light and do not come to the light [or recognize the Christ Spirit within], so [under the false assumption] that their deeds may not be exposed. But those who do what is true come to the light [come to know the Christ Spirit within themselves], so that it may be clearly seen that their deeds have been done in God [as branches of the vine God implanted on Earth].¹⁰⁸

Returning to the Nicene Creed, we find it states, “For our sake he was crucified.” As stated in chapter three, the early followers of Jesus were compelled by the pressures of their cosmopolitan society to answer the question: “Why do you call ‘Teacher’ a man the Roman government sentenced to death for treason?” They answer the questions within the context of their religious experiences.

Christianity grows out of the Jewish religion. Throughout Old Testament times and into the first century C.E., the Jewish religion is sacrificial. Just as we have evidence of two levels within Jesus’ teachings (the parables for the crowds and the hidden wisdom for the disciples alone), ¹⁰⁹ the Judaic sacrifice has two levels.

Rituals of worship within the Jewish religion include the sacrifice of animals up to the destruction of the Temple in Jerusalem in 70 C.E. John the Baptist (as depicted in John 1:29, 35) uses a metaphor, derived from his religious background¹¹⁰ to refer to Jesus: “Here is the Lamb of God who takes away the sin of the world!”¹¹¹ Likewise the gospel writers tend to explain Jesus’ crucifixion within the mundane boundaries of the Jewish religion. However, an esoteric level of Judaism exists. This level is illustrated by the Old Testament prophet Isaiah: “Listen to the teaching of our God …. What to me is the multitude of your sacrifices? says the Lord; I have enough of burnt offerings of rams and the fat of fed beasts; I do not delight in the blood of bulls, or of lambs, or of goats.” Instead of blood sacrifices, the Lord requests, “Wash yourselves; make yourselves clean; remove the evil of your doings from before my eyes; cease to do evil, learn to go good; seek justice, rescue the oppressed, defend the orphan, plead for the widow.”¹¹² Words, incorporated into a Christian hymn as if they relate to Jesus’ sacrifice, are instead a part of the esoteric teachings of Judaism: “Though your sins are like scarlet, they shall be like snow; though they are red like crimson, they shall become like wool.” Isaiah proclaims the requirement for this cleansing: “If you are willing and obedient, you shall eat the good of the land; but if you refuse and rebel, you shall be devoured by the sword.”¹¹³ God freely offers cleansing and abundance to all who are willing and obedient. Sacrifices are not needed.

Circumcision is a Jewish ritual of dedication to the Lord, similar to the ritual of baptism in the Christian church. Deuteronomy, one of the books in the Jewish Torah (or Book of Law) unveils the esoteric level of circumcision. “The Lord your God will circumcise your heart and the heart of your descendants, so that you will love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul, in order that you may live.”¹¹⁴ Physical manifestations or rituals are simply a reminder of higher, spiritual Truth. They do not constitute the means of salvation.

How does Jesus answer when questioned, “What must I do to inherit eternal life?” As we see in the example of the rich man, Jesus responds to this question according to the individual’s stage of spiritual maturity. For this particular rich man, Jesus prescribes, “Go, sell what you own, and give the money to the poor.”¹¹⁵ He knows this man cannot enter the kingdom of heaven as long as he remains attached to his material possessions—in other words chained to the mundane level of spirituality. This answer causes problems for some Christians. Does Jesus mean being rich disqualifies us from entering heaven?

Zacchaeus is a wealthy tax collector living in Jericho. Tax collectors are uniformly hated because they cheat the people. Upon meeting and having Jesus in his home for a meal, Zacchaeus repents: “Zacchaeus stood there and said to the Lord, ‘Look, I will give to the poor; and if I have defrauded anyone of anything, I will pay back four times as much.’” Jesus does not suggest to Zacchaeus that he sell his possessions. Zacchaeus offers to share his possessions, to balance his negative karmic debt by returning four times as much as he has unfairly taken from the people. Jesus’ response to Zacchaeus is totally different from his answer to the rich man cited above. Each of us has specific soul lessons to learn this incarnation. Jesus reinforces Zacchaeus’ decision: “Today salvation has come to this house.”¹¹⁶ Zacchaeus continues to be a rich man. He can accomplish spiritual maturity, while remaining rich, because he willingly shares his abundance.

Jesus ends his praise of Zacchaeus with a curious statement if read through the lens of the Nicene Creed: “For the Son of Man came to seek out and to save the lost.”¹¹⁷ Traditional Christianity teaches that the only means of salvation is through the spilled blood of Jesus. This is not the teaching of Jesus. Zacchaeus is affirmed in his salvation on the basis of his own soul’s growth.

Since the goal of Jesus’ ministry is “to save the lost,” we would expect him to explain his means of doing so. Jesus urges us to follow him, to lay down our lives in service to others, to take up our cross, to do the things he does and more. When asked, “What is the greatest commandment,” Jesus turns all attention away from himself. “You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, and all your soul, and with all your mind. This is the greatest and first commandment. And a second is like it: You shall love your neighbor as yourself.”¹¹⁸

If Jesus makes no reference to himself when expounding upon the means of salvation, why does he allow himself to be crucified? Matthew, Mark, and Luke depict Jesus interpreting his forthcoming death within the religious milieu of his day—as the sacrificial lamb. He does this through the institution of the Lord’s Supper as he celebrates the Passover Feast with his disciples. In John’s gospel also, Jesus celebrates the Passover Feast with his disciples. He then washes their feet. He instructs them: “Do you know what I have done to you? You call me Teacher and Lord—and you are right, for that is what I am. So, if I, your Lord and Teacher, have washed your feet, you also ought to wash one another’s feet. For I have set you an example, that you also should do as I have done to you.”¹¹⁹ Jesus presents himself as prototype man.

In John 10:17-18, Jesus sets forth the reason for his crucifixion: “For this reason the Father loves me, because I lay down my life in order to take it up again. No one takes it from me, but I lay it down of my own accord. I have the power to lay it down, and I have the power to take it up again. I have received this command from my Father.”

What is Jesus saying?

Read through the lens of the Nicene Creed, he is sacrificing his life because God commands it in order to save us from our sins. Read through the lens of hidden wisdom, Jesus is laying down his life in order to resurrect his physical body. “I have the power to take it up again.” God commands it because Jesus has attained a level of oneness with God, a level of divinity that enables him to resurrect his physical body as concrete proof that death does not exist. Jesus is the prototype man. He is a concrete revelation to humanity of the path that leads to eternal life.

He affirms his ability to resurrect himself earlier in John 2:19, 21: “Jesus answered them, ‘Destroy this temple, and in three days I will raise it up’ …. He was speaking of the temple of his body.” Jesus is teaching on the level of hidden wisdom, but the people connect his words to the physical temple in Jerusalem. Orthodox Christianity also interprets his teachings on the physical level. Read through the lens of Gnosticism and reincarnation, the Bible overflows with the secret teachings of Jesus and his predecessors.

Salvation of human beings is found throughout the Bible and is not limited to or dependent upon the death of Jesus. The life-giving force of the Word, the only begotten Son of God, is within all of humanity. Jesus, as prototype man, precedes us in his re-union with God. He is the Wayshower, the man who saves us by demonstrating and revealing the Way back home. We may require numerous additional lifetimes on earth before we can add the Christ after our name. God’s grace is eternal, awaiting that day.

Does the belief in reincarnation render God’s grace cheap? Orthodox Christians answer, “yes” because, for them, the only means of salvation is through the shed blood of Jesus—thus costly grace. Reincarnationists respond, “No.” For them, costly grace is lazy grace. Orthodox Christianity teaches that Jesus “did it all”; Christians have only to believe. Reincarnationists know that many lifetimes are required in order to develop the self-discipline and to integrate the hidden wisdom sufficiently to fulfill Jesus’ command, “Be perfect, as your Father in heaven is perfect.”

Does acceptance of reincarnation take away from the status of Jesus as the central figure in Christianity? Orthodox Christianity once more responds “yes” for the same reason cited above. Reincarnationists rejoice in their reply “no.” Jesus is the prototype man, the human being whose own triumph over lower self promises the same capacity to each of us. We are all to become Christed beings.

God is Love.

ENDNOTES

 89 Creeds of the Churches, ed. John H. Leith (Louisville: John Knox Press, 1982) 28.

90 THE NICENE CREED: We believe in one God, the Father, the Almighty, maker of heaven and earth, of all that is, seen and unseen. We believe in one Lord, Jesus Christ, the only Son of God, eternally begotten of the Father, God from God, Light from Light, true God from true God, begotten ,not made, of one Being with the Father. Through him all things were made. For us and for our salvation he came down from heaven; by the power of the Holy Spirit he became incarnate from the Virgin Mary, and was made human. For our sakes he was crucified under Pontius Pilate; he suffered death and was buried. On the third day he rose again in accordance with the Scriptures; he ascended into heaven and is seated at the right hand of the Father. He will come again in glory to judge the living and the dead, and his kingdom will have no end. We believe in the Holy Spirit, the Lord, the giver of life, who proceeds from the Father and the Son. With the Father and the Son he is worshiped and glorified. He has spoken through the prophets. We believe in one holy catholic and apostolic church. We acknowledge one baptism for the forgiveness of sins. We look for the resurrection of the dead, and the life of the world to come. Amen.

91 DOUBLE PREDESTINATION states that God, at the time of creation, foreordains some souls to eternal bliss, some to eternal damnation. Augustine, one of the early Church Fathers, evolved a doctrine of predestination which stressed “it is God’s choice and action, taken without regard for human merit foreseen, which at once starts people on the road to salvation and enables them to persevere in it.” [Williston Walker, A History of the Christian Church (New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1985) 209.] Though Augustine did not go so far as to teach those souls not selected by God are foreordained to eternal damnation, his doctrine did so by implication. Acceptance of the extreme theory of double predestination waxed and waned throughout Christian history, with its culmination in John Calvin. Calvin goes beyond Augustine and explicitly asserts double predestination. His doctrine states that the reprobation of those not elected is a specific determination of God’s inscrutable will. [John Calvin, Institutes of the Christian Religion trans. Ford Lewis Battles, ed. John T. McNeill (Philadelphia: The Westminster Press) 1viii.] Reprobation means foreordained to damnation. Calvin taught anxiety over whether or not one is among the elect is to be considered a temptation by Satan. [Calvin 1iz.] It is doctrines like double predestination that have permeated the Christian psyche with fear. Even when the doctrine is denied on the conscious level, the subconscious continues submerged in the fear “what if?” Imprisoned by fear of a capricious God, Christians have understandably been very hesitant to read the Bible with any other than the traditional lens. Such doctrines have deprived Christians of much joy.

92 Rocco Errico, “Why Hell Is A Rubbish Heap,” Science of Mind Magazine Feb. 1996:103. Used with permission by Rocco Errico. Dr. Errico’s book entitled Let There Be Light presents seven keys for gleaning an understanding of the Bible. These keys are based upon his knowledge of the Hebrew and Aramaic languages (the original languages of the Old and New Testaments), plus the ancient Middle Eastern culture. His book is available in this website’s bookstore, listed under Biblical Studies.

93 Revelation 9:17, 14:10, 19:20, 20:10, and 21:8.

94 Manly P. Hall, An Encyclopedic Outline of Masonic, Hermetic, Qabbalistic, and Rosicrucian Symbolical Philosophy, (Los Angeles: The Philosophical Research Society, Inc., 1978) CXXXII.

95 Mark 4:35-41.

96 Luke 9:10-13.

97 Matthew 6:9.

98 Matthew 7:11.

99 Cranston 153. Matthew 13:11, Mark 4:11, Luke 8:9.

100 Cranston 155.

101 John 17:21.

102 John 5:19.

103 John 5:30.

104 John 7:16.

105 John 8:28, 38.

106 John 12:44, 49, 50b.

107 John 14:10b.

108 John 3:16-21.

109 Matthew 13:10-11, Mark 4:10-11, 33-34, Luke 8:10.

110 The Suffering Servant motif found in Isaiah 53: “Like a lamb that is led to the slaughter.”

111 John 1:29.

112 Isaiah 1:10-11, 16-17.

113 Isaiah 1:18-20.

114 Deuteronomy 30:6.

115 Mark 10:21.

116 Luke 19:1-10.

117 Luke 19:10.

118 Matthew 22:37-39.

119 John 13:12b-15.

 

NOW IS THE TIME TO MAKE A POSITIVE DIFFERENCE!

“Through the unprecedented Divine Grace of our Father-Mother God, Humanity and the Earth are being offered an opportunity to Ascend through TWO dimensional shifts during this Cosmic Inbreath. This has never happened before.”

Patricia Diane Cota-Robles

NOW Is the Time to Make a Positive Difference!

Patricia Diane Cota-Robles, January 25, 2012

2012 has catapulted us into uncharted waters. We are in the midst of the greatest shift of consciousness Humanity has ever experienced, and the Earth and all her Life are Ascending up the Spiral of Evolution through TWO dimensional shifts.

We are Ascending from the 3rd Dimension into the 5th Dimension. This is a unique experiment that has never been attempted in any system of worlds. Never has a planet that has fallen to the depth of separation and duality existing on Earth been given the opportunity to Ascend through TWO dimensional shifts in such a short period of time.

This is an evolutionary process that normally takes millions of years. When we succeed God Victoriously, which we will through the unified efforts of embodied Humanity and the Company of Heaven, we will have cocreated a new octave of Godhood that will greatly benefit ALL Creation.

No matter how grandiose that statement may sound, the Company of Heaven said it does not even begin to adequately describe the magnitude of what the success of this experiment will accomplish on behalf of the Sons and Daughters of God throughout the Universe.

We are a sum total of all of the experiences we have ever had. Through lifetimes of free will choices and the abuse of our creative faculties of thought and feeling, Humanity is responsible for creating the illusion of separation and duality existing on Earth. These distorted human miscreations have resulted in mind-boggling pain and suffering for Humanity and all Life evolving on this precious planet.

Once we transmute the human miscreations of separation and duality, which we must do in order to Ascend into the 5th Dimension, we will retain the lessons we learned from our mistakes and from the loss of awareness regarding Divine Love and the Oneness of ALL Life.

When we Ascend, we will take these incredibly painful lessons with us and they will be recorded in the Halls of Knowledge. Our hard-won lessons will then be available to every Son and Daughter of God through study and observation. This means that our sisters and brothers throughout the Universe will be able to learn the lessons of separation and duality WITHOUT EVER having to delve into the depths of pain and suffering Humanity physically experienced on Earth.

For this reason, the Legions of Light throughout Infinity are holding the sacred space for our success in this unique experiment. Everyone in the Realms of Truth knows what this victory will mean for the Sons and Daughters of God. That is why this one tiny planet and the Sons and Daughters of God evolving upon her are receiving more assistance from the Heavenly Realms than our Father-Mother God have ever allowed before.

I would like to share some important information with you so that we will all understand our responsibility in endeavor. Every man, woman, and child embodied on Earth at this critical time is here because he or she volunteered to assist with this unique experiment. We have all been preparing for this moment for a very long time, and we already have everything we need within us to succeed in our facet of the Divine Plan. First we need to understand the magnitude of what is actually happening on Earth.

The experiment we are now in the midst of involves a Cosmic Alignment known as “The Shift of The Ages.” For over 25 years we have been hearing about this alignment, but most of the information is referring to the completion of the 5,125-year cycle of the Mayan Calendar and Earth’s alignment with the Galactic Center of the Milky Way. That alignment coincides with the Solstice of December 21, 2012.

The Beings of Light in the Realms of Illumined Truth have revealed that, in Truth, the Shift of The Ages is far greater than we are comprehending at this time. It is not just the completion of a particular cycle of the Mayan Calendar. The Shift of The Ages involves an extremely rare event that happens only once every several million years.

During that rare Celestial Moment, Galactic, Solar, and Planetary cycles, within cycles, within cycles dovetail into one synchronized pulsation. This pulsation rhythmically unifies ALL Creation with the Heartbeat of our Omniscient, Omnipotent, Omnipresent Father-Mother God, the Cosmic I AM, All That Is.

For greater clarity, here are just a few of the grand cycles involved in the Shift of the Ages. In addition to the 5,125-year cycle of the Mayan Calendar, at the present time we are experiencing the cycle of Earth’s transition from the 2,166-year Age of Pisces into the 2,166-year Age of Aquarius.

We are also experiencing the culmination of the 26,000-year cycle known as the Precession of the Equinox, the 438,000-year cycle of Kali Yuga, the 1.8 million-year cycle of Satya Yuga, the 4.4 million-year cycle of Mahayuga, and the 4.4 billion-year cycle of Kalpa, or the Day of Brahma. A Kalpa equals 1,000 Mahayugas or Divine Ages. The Day of Brahma reverberates with the prime creative force of the Godhead. This cycle is one day in the “seven days of Creation” mentioned in the Bible.

During the Cosmic Moment referred to as the Shift of The Ages, the entire Universe synchronisticly aligns with the Heartbeat of the Cosmic I AM, the Source of All That Is. Once that unified, rhythmic pulsation occurs, our Father-Mother God Inbreathe the whole of Creation up the Spiral of Evolution into the next dimension of our learning experience. This is a natural part of our evolutionary process as Sons and Daughters of God. We have been going through these Cosmic Inbreaths since we were first breathed forth from the Heart of our God Parents. But this time, it is different.

Through the unprecedented Divine Grace of our Father-Mother God, Humanity and the Earth are being offered an opportunity to Ascend through TWO dimensional shifts during this Cosmic Inbreath. This has never happened before. The hope of our God Parents is that the Sons and Daughters of God evolving on Earth will at long last reverse the adverse affects of our fall from Grace, so that we can catch up with the rest of our Solar System and make the shift into the 5th Dimension.

When we fell from Grace aeons ago, we descended into such separation and duality that when it was time for the last Shift of The Ages we could not lift our heads above the mud puddle of our human miscreations enough to see the Light. We were so buried in our self-inflicted pain and suffering that we missed the opportunity to Ascend into the 4th Dimension with the rest of our Solar System. Tragically, we were left behind and we have been struggling through the quagmire of our human miscreations and the appalling antics of our fragmented, fear-based human egos ever since.

Even though the separation and duality we have experienced on Earth was not part of the original Divine Plan, once we created this situation our I AM Presences and the Company of Heaven decided that the lessons we learned from the experience should be used to prevent other Children of God from making the same mistake. That goal was accomplished far beyond what was necessary. We have been writhing for far too long in the atrocities we created when we forgot about the Oneness of ALL Life and the profound Truth that LOVE Is ALL That Is!

So here we are in the midst of another Shift of the Ages and our Solar System is Ascending from the 4th Dimension into the 5th Dimension. During the last shift, the Earth alone was left behind to struggle in the 3rd Dimension.

Our Father-Mother God and the Company of Heaven feel that we have been wallowing in the quagmire of our human miscreations long enough. They do not want ANY of us to be left behind this time, forced to endure our painful miscreations for thousands of years.

The problem is that they cannot just do this for us. We have free will, and they can only intervene in our lives in ways that we have requested through our heartfelt pleas, our prayers, and our invocations.

A lot of people are reporting that there will be millions of people who will not make the conscious choice to move into the Light in time for the completion of this Ascension process. They say there is nothing we can do about it and that these souls will be left behind to progress at their own slow pace.

What our Father-Mother God and the Company of Heaven are imploring us to remember is that WE HAVE ALREADY BEEN THERE AND DONE THAT. In fact, that scenario is exactly the tragedy that the Beings of Light want us to avert this time.

Our Father-Mother God do not want a single Child of God to be left behind. That is the reason for this merciful experiment. If any of us do not make the shift into the 5th Dimension, it means the experiment failed.

Every person who was left behind during the last Shift of the Ages is embodied on Earth at this time. In addition to these precious souls, there are millions of advanced souls who have volunteered to embody on Earth during this Cosmic Moment.

The Divine Intent of these souls is to help the souls who were left behind the last time to awaken, so they can make the shift this time. This is why there was such a tremendous population explosion during the last century. It is immaterial whether we are part of the Earth’s evolutions who were left behind last time or whether we have come to help our sisters and brothers make the shift this time. All that matters is that we all accept responsibility for doing what we came here to do. That is to help Humanity to lift above the pain and suffering effectively enough to see the Light, so each person will make the conscious choice to Ascend into the 5th Dimension with the rest of our Solar System.

Our Father-Mother God have revealed that at inner levels the I AM Presence of every person has made the choice to move into the Light. Now this heart commitment needs to resonate in each person’s conscious mind and feeling world. This awakening within the person’s heart and mind will motivate changes in their behavior patterns and belief system, which will lift them up enough to perceive the Light. Then they will be able to comprehend the awesome opportunity at hand.

Everyone has free will so we cannot just do this for them, but you and I and every other willing person have an amazing ability to help in the process. The Universal Law is: “The call for assistance must come from the realm where the assistance is needed.” Since we are One with every man, woman, and child on Earth, and since we are on Earth ourselves, we have the ability to invoke assistance from every person’s I AM Presence and the Company of Heaven on their behalf. And when we do, the floodgates of Heaven open.

Many of the recalcitrant souls on the planet have been so manipulated and controlled by their fear-based, fragmented human egos that they do not even remember that they have an I AM Presence or that they are a Beloved Child of God. They are oblivious to the events occurring on the planet, and the concept of the Shift of the Ages seems like a fairy tale to them.

These are the souls that continue to act out adversely and that many people are saying are going to be left behind. Often that possibility seems like a relief since these are the people who are usually wreaking havoc in our lives and on the planet. However, these are the very people we have promised to help.

The millions of people who are awakening and making the choice to move into the Light on their own are not the ones who need us. They are going to succeed in making the shift and be just fine.

It is our sisters and brothers who have forgotten who they are and the fact that they are One with all Life who need our help. They are not acting out in the adverse and appalling ways we are witnessing because they are evil.

It is due to the fact that they are so trapped in the illusion of separation and duality that they think the only way to survive is to lie, cheat, steal, and kill. These are the very people we have promised to help.

These are our sisters and brothers who need us the most. And these are the people who will make the most positive difference in our lives when they awaken and choose to stop creating such pain and suffering for Humanity.

Please, let’s not forsake them or write them off. And let’s certainly not perpetuate their descent into chaos by holding the thoughtform that they are going to be left behind to suffer with their human miscreations for aeons of time.

Instead, let’s think of them as our sisters and brothers in every sense of the word, which they actually are. Let’s think of them as our loved ones. In that case, what would your wishes be for them? What action would you take in order to help them awaken? What would you be willing to do to hold the sacred space for them as they lift above the negativity manifesting in their life? Would you invoke Divine Intervention on their behalf?

This is why you are on Earth! Listen to your heart and you will know the Truth of that statement. Now, ask your I AM Presence how you can be the most powerful Instrument of God during this life-transforming year of 2012, and respond to your inner guidance. You will know exactly what to do.